Tic Tac Know Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 3. Cause the plates to move; between the lithosphere and the asthenosphere
- 8. A rigid layer made up of the uppermost part of the mantle and the crust
- 11. A layer of molten iron and nickel
- 13. The process by which molten material adds new oceanic crust to the ocean floor
- 14. A deep canyon on the ocean floor
- 15. Theory that pieces of the Earth's lithosphere are in motion,driven by convection currents in the mantle
- 17. The process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary
- 18. The undersea mountain mountain chain where new ocean floor is produced; a divergent plate boundary
- 19. German Scientist who developed the Theory of the Continental Drift in 1912.
Down
- 1. A plate boundary where two plates move toward each other
- 2. A soft layer of the mantle on which the lithosphere floats
- 3. The layer of rock that forms the Earth's outer surface
- 4. A deep valley where two plates move apart
- 5. A break or crack in the Earth's lithosphere along which rocks move
- 6. Alfred Wegener's hypothesis that the continents were once one huge land mass but have since then drifted apart
- 7. Dense ball of solid material
- 9. Thickest layer of the Earth; it consists of two layers - the lithosphere and the asthenosphere
- 10. the name of the single landmass that broke
- 12. A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other
- 16. A plate boundary where two plates grind against each other, moving it different directions